From:
Joseph Tairraz
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 8 8bre 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/3, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
T Zeno
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
October 8th, 1862
Source of text:
24 (1862), pp. 390-2, Phil. Mag.
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.470
Summary:
Discusses problems with darkness on solar autographs and also the appearance of a white spot or 'ghost.' Cannot explain the 'notch' in the Aug. 4 autographs.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1862
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 7)
Summary:
Discusses length of pistils, and measuring seeds and pods for botanical work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 294
Summary:
The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.
Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.
A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Oct. 9th
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/201, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Natural History Review
Date:
[before 10 Oct 1862]
Source of text:
Natural History Review n.s. 3 (1863): 115–16
Summary:
In his work on cirripedes [Cirripedia, vol. 1 Lepadidae (1851), pp. 53–5] CD described a particular organ as an "auditory-sac" although he was unable to trace the supposed nerve from it to any ganglion. August Krohn [in "Observations on the development of the Cirripedia", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 6 (1859): 423–8] concluded that the organ was ovarian. CD supposes that Krohn is correct, but gives further observations that suggest an auditory function. If someone could find ova within the curious organ it would confirm Krohn’s view.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 295
Summary:
Thanks for a contribution ["On the so-called ""auditory-sac"" of cirripedes", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 115–16; Collected papers 2: 85–7]. Is sending a proof.
This year’s lecture to working men to be devoted to CD’s book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 8)
Summary:
Sends comments on Lythrum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
11th. Oct. 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1140; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1999-2000, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Oct 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 59–60, 86
Summary:
Has sent two Impatiens flowers; curious to know what CD makes of the floral whorls and their vascular bundles.
Cassia is another genus that has different [coloured] anthers in same flower.
Continues to work on Welwitschia.
Feels as CD does about his work, which after a time seems flat and stale. He could never have done what CD did in his Orchids.
CD’s facts about Verbascum have horrible bearing on JDH’s practice of lumping species together.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 715)
Summary:
Asks for reference to GB’s summary of Targioni-Tozzetti’s book ["Historical notes on the introduction of various plants into the agriculture and horticulture of Tuscany: a summary of a work entitled Cenni storici sulla introduzione di varie piante nell agricultura ed orticultura Toscana by Dr Antonio Targioni-Tozzetti, Florence, 1850", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 9 (1855): 133–81]. [See Variation, 1st ed., 1: 306 n.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
13 Oct. 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/L/49; MS JT/1/TYP/3/848, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
13 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 37 (EH 88206020), 261.10: 66 (EH 88206049)
Summary:
Requests Linum, for dimorphism study.
Reviewer of Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6]is correct about the organisation of the book; he wonders who the reviewer is.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 277
Summary:
If Wickham remains in town and CD is well enough, BJS thinks they might come about the 22d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [Oct 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 166
Summary:
Thanks for Aldrovanda reference and Cassia.
Has wasted labour on Melastomataceae without getting a glimpse of the meaning of the parts.
Wants seeds, from their native land, of Heterocentron or Monochaetum.
Is beginning to change his view about rarity of natural hybrids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.267), The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2840–3)
Summary:
Further comments on Jamieson’s theory of the formation of the roads of Glen Roy; paper by Jamieson dealing with glaciation in Scotland ["On the ice-worn rocks of Scotland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 164–84].
Comments on paper by A. C. Ramsay on the glacial formation of lakes ["On the glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204].
Criticises remarks by John Tyndall on glacial formation of Swiss valleys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 278
Summary:
Arranges to come to Down on the 21st if CD is well enough.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
15 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Asks for news of HWB and his book.
There has been sickness in CD’s family; one of the boys [and Emma] had scarlet fever.
Has had a letter from Edwin Brown of Burton who is working on classification of Carabi.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160: 153
Summary:
Sends CD the reference for GB’s summary of Targioni-Tozzetti’s work [see 3760].
Hopes for a communication to the Linnean Society from CD "this winter".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
